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Home made afghan box camera, @Woody_wood_picture

STREET BOX CAMERA

In june 2022, from wood, glass and metal,

I built an "Afghan" Street Box Camera,

behind a 1920's 9x12cm large format camera.

This simple but such ingenious woodbox, make it possible to combine

a camera obscura and a portable B&W mini-lab "all-in-one",

to deliver nice minute made unique pictures, that can be given

to the models immediately,

thanks to a 10x15cm paper negative classical analog technic.

This ancester of our modern "photomaton", was invented in the end of the 19th century, by lower class photographs craftsmen, who couldn't afford a real in-door photo-studio, and pushed to imagine this amazing solution of a shooting camera with its portable darkroom, to be able to directly sale their portraits in the street to middle class people, happy to get family souvenir & cheaper portraits for official administrative documents rather than in a real studio.

This old job of "street portrait maker"

(just like the shoe shiner or knife sharpener)

disapeared in Western Europe and in Norther America

with the arrival of affordable little glass plate or film cameras that rich clients could get for their own practice of family photographs.

Therefore, in the rest of the world, like in Africa, South America or Asia, up to nowdays, we can find Street Box Camera Photographers, who still continue to make souvenirs for people and official documents portraiture for the population.

Notably in Afghanistan -a country retarded by so many decenies of wars- such street photographers are known to be very common, and that's the reason why the US GI's called it "Afghan Box", as it became popular again to western artists.

analog paper negative Afghan Box camera minutera shot of a mysterious man with artistic artefacts

artistic portrait of young women taken by an analog street box afghan box camera minutera in Beaubourg Centre Pompidou Paris

artistic portrait of young boys taken by an analog street box afghan box camera minutera in Beaubourg Centre Pompidou Paris

artistic portrait of young lovers taken by an analog street box afghan box camera minutera in Beaubourg Centre Pompidou Paris

artistic portrait of handsome man taken by an analog street box afghan box camera minutera in Beaubourg Centre Pompidou Paris

artistic portrait of beauty girl taken by an analog street box afghan box camera minutera in Beaubourg Centre Pompidou Paris

artistic portrait of young girls taken by an analog street box afghan box camera minutera in Beaubourg Centre Pompidou Paris

artistic portrait of a french cowboy taken by analog street box afghan box camera minutera in Beaubourg Centre Pompidou Paris

artistic portrait of family taken by an analog street box afghan box camera minutera in Beaubourg Centre Pompidou Paris

artistic portrait of father and son taken by analog street box afghan box camera minutera in Beaubourg Centre Pompidou Paris

artistic portrait of beautyful girls taken by analog street box afghan box camera minutera in Beaubourg Centre Pompidou Paris

artistic portrait of a afro girl taken by an analog street box afghan box camera minutera in Beaubourg Centre Pompidou Paris

artistic portrait of young girl taken by an analog street box afghan box camera minutera in Beaubourg Centre Pompidou Paris

artistic portrait of beauty woman taken by an analog street box afghan box camera minutera in Beaubourg Centre Pompidou Paris

artistic portrait of white bear man taken by analog street box afghan box camera minutera in Beaubourg Centre Pompidou Paris

artistic B&W portrait of a beautyfull woman taken by an analog street box afghan box camera minutera in Paris Central Park

artistic B&W portrait of a teen girl taken by an analog street box afghan box camera minutera in Paris Central Park

artistic B&W portrait of a father and girl taken by an analog street box afghan box camera minutera in Paris Central Park

artistic B&W portrait of a granma and child taken by an analog street box afghan box camera minutera in Paris Buttes Chaumont

artistic B&W portrait of a man taken by an analog street box afghan box camera minutera in Paris Buttes Chaumont nice bokeh

artistic B&W portrait of a woman taken by an analog street box afghan box camera minutera in Paris Buttes Chaumont nice bokeh

artistic B&W portrait of a couple taken by analog street box afghan box camera minutera in Paris Buttes Chaumont tilt shift

artistic B&W portrait of a couple with baby taken by an analog street box afghan box camera minutera large format Paris

artistic B&W portrait of a lovely couple taken by an analog street box afghan box camera minutera in Paris

artistic B&W portrait of a lovely family taken by an analog street box afghan box camera minutera in Paris nice blow artefact

artistic B&W portrait of a beautifull young girl taken by an analog street box afghan box camera minutera in Paris

artistic B&W portrait of a young man with glasses taken by an analog street box afghan box camera minutera large format Paris

artistic B&W portrait of a white hair man taken by an analog street box afghan box camera minutera large format Paris

artistic B&W portrait of a young teenager taken by an analog street box afghan box camera minutera large format Paris

artistic B&W portrait of a smoking middle age man taken by an analog street box afghan box camera minutera large format Paris

artistic B&W portrait of a middle age man taken by an analog street box afghan box camera minutera large format Paris

artistic B&W portrait of a knight in armor taken by an analog street box afghan box camera minutera large format Paris

artistic B&W portrait of a smily couple by an analog street box afghan box camera minutera large format Paris

artistic B&W portrait of two teenager girls taken by an analog street box afghan box camera minutera large format Paris

artistic B&W portrait of two teenager boys taken by an analog street box afghan box camera minutera large format Paris

artistic B&W portrait of a young traveller taken by an analog street box afghan box camera minutera large format Paris

artistic B&W portrait of a beautifull french couple taken by an analog street box afghan box camera minutera large format

artistic B&W portrait of a young short hair smily woman taken by an analog street box afghan box camera minutera large format

artistic B&W portrait of two asian friend women taken by an analog street box afghan box camera minutera large format

artistic B&W portrait of an indian granma with child taken by an analog street box afghan box camera minutera large format

artistic B&W portrait of a calm spiritual old woman taken by an analog street box afghan box camera minutera large format

artistic B&W portrait of a man with beard and hat taken by an analog street box afghan box camera

artistic B&W portrait of a smiling blond little girl taken by an analog street box afghan box camera minutera large format

artistic B&W portrait of a young teen girl mona lisa like taken by an analog street box afghan box camera minutera

artistic B&W portrait of an old street painter artist in Montmartre Paris taken by an analog street box afghan box camera

artistic B&W portrait of a handsome man taken by an analog street box afghan box camera minutera in Paris

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